Fontanels or issues NAture having appointed the Body to be preserved and nourished by a continual supply of necessary food daily to be received in which before it be assimilated and incorporated into the substance of the body suffers several concoctions and transmutations by the digestive ferment of the parts destinated for that office and work in which praevious disposition and gradual preparation for nutrition there is a separation made the nutritive and necessary part from the excrementitious and unnecessary the purest defaecated part ordained for aliment is conveyed still farther from one digestion to another untill it hath received the compliment and full perfection intended by nature the excrementitious and inutile part segregated is received by sinks and channels peculiarly appointed and framed for their conveyance out of the Body as the lower guts Urinary ductures Nose Pores c. Which passages if at any time obstructed and stopt up the derriment and sensible dammage soon confirms the necessity of their use office And as nature hath appointed and framed in the Body vents and out-lets for the daily discharging of excrementious superfluities which otherwise would putrifie suffocate and stifle if not in some measure duly evacuated In imitation of natures contrivance Art hath invented Issues as Ports and Vents to be placed here or there as the variety of occasions require to supply natures insufficiency and inability to relieve and help her self in the discharge and emission of superfluous extravasated humours and putrid vapours which retained produce various symptomes according to the several proprieties of their nature and degeneration organicall difference and peculier office of the parts they invade and infest And having such a passe Port by which nature findes her self alleviated and disburthened does daily amandate and send superfluous humours to this out let as to other common passages and conveyances for the excretion and voiding of excrements by her own institution and fabrication And having found such an auxiliary conveniency she does expect it to be continued and relies upon the assistance untill the occasion be otherwise prevented the cause removed or nature better able to discharge and free her self by the channels and passages of her own appointment Now if praematurely and unseasonably this artificial passage be denyed and stopt up there being cause for the contrary the confluence of humours meeting and gathering at the place regurgitates back again with a united force and greater current at which nature being surprised unexpectedly and having made no provision to secure her self from such a retrogradation or reflux produceth the same preternatural symptoms and effects for which the issue was first made or worse For your better satisfaction and information in the use of issues first I shall consider for whom and in what cases beneficial Secondly what it is that issues forth and is evacuated Thirdly the places and parts of the body proper and conveniant for them Lastly the signes when to close them without danger For corpulent and plethorick bodyes that feed high and live a sedentary inactive life whereby ventilation and transpiration is cohibited and restrained issues may be used by way of Praecaution In Cachectic bodies and diseases from putrid humours issues makes evacuation and allevates For revulsion derivation or interception of a humour inconveniently resorting to an eminent or infirm part issues alters the course and current In Diseases from venenate and noxious vapours appearing with uncertaine motions and intervals issues retards and abates the strength of their paroxysmes For Eiratic pains Cutany defaedations and extuberations from extravasated humors frustraneous digestion the use of issues may be beneficial Issues are as Rivulets or Channels from a fountain to prevent inundation and direct the streams they do not destroy the Spring but give vent and current this way that it shall not overflow to do hurt otherwaies They do not eradicate a disease but they lessen and abate the swelling productions or growth prevent or retard the frequent paroxysmes and returns of formidable and dolorous symptoms give time and space for a Physician to use fit efficacious Medicines to extirpate and take away the antecedent cause and are but remedia a posteriori palliativa to mitigate the effects not curative and eradicative For the nature and quality of humors issuing of 〈◊〉 they are divers according to the various disposition of bodyes temperaments and morbific causes such as the body abounds with and is superfluanous such is transmitted thither for emission That the humour evacuated is not usefull and necessary for the body appears first by the concomitant figns manifesting the nature of it itching pricking sharp pain about the place inflamation and spongious flesh rising in some more in others less which are not signs and effects of a natural good humor but a hot corroding sharp unnatural humor flowing thither degenerate and corrupt beside nature is not prodigal in the excretion and expence of humors profitable and useful for the body except by irritation What is the reason that in cachectic foul bodyes Ulcers in any part are difficult to cure but by reason of a continual supply of bad humors resorting thither for evacuation and will not let the sore heale up because they will have vent and therefore a skilful Chirurgeon does not only apply topical Medicaments but also endeavours to remove the antecedent cause by internal medicine and reduce the Cacochymical ill habit of body to a natural good state and condition by alteration and evacuatioy which being procured the wonted fluâ—â— humors to the ulcerated place is staied and then nature heals the sore with a very little help In placing of Issues rightly three things is to be considered First that they be commodious and properly scituate for the affluence and effiux of the morbific humor for humors have a tendency and an inclination to one part more then to another according to the communication of parts and rather downwards then upwards from the propensity of their gravity Secondly whether Revulsion or derivation of the morbific cause be most convenient and benificial in the case for which an issue is appointed Thirdly That the position and motion of the Muscles be diligently observed else the Issue will not be so beneficial nor lye easy for if it be set upon a Muscle the motion and attrition of the Muscle will continually molest and disturb it and the evacuation will be but little Therefore you must endeavour to place them in Interstitiis Musculorum in the distances between the Muscles where the extravasated humors are most frequent in their motions and perambulations In the Closing up of an issue these are to be considered the cause for which it was appointed what effects alteration or abatement of infirmity the age of the person whether in youth strength of nature or declining years as also the season and time of the year which is to be adjudged and determined variously as the particular case and circumstances collated do suggest
the weak continuing their use more or less as the occassion and greatness of the cause requires After these Pills the following Tincture is very proper and beneficial The Scorbute Tincture hath a specific vertue against the Scurvy which discovers it self by certain symptomes attending it as lassitude heaviness and indisposition to motion or action pains of the head thighs hips knees and other parts putrefaction of the gums and loosness of teeth inflation and distention of the Hypochonders red purple or livid spots upon the skin c. Some of these signs are sufficient to declare the disease especially when remote causes concur as a close Air gross diet studious melancholy or sedentary life This Tincture asists the spleen in the discharge of its office from whose imbecillity and depraved operation chiefly as an approximate cause the bloud acquires a peculiar corruption and scorbutic malignity detected by some symptomes declaring its specific nature and according to the degree or heigth arrived at are the symptomes more in number and more exasperate worse in quality The Tincture resolveth and volatizeth coagulate and fixed tartareous matter attenuates and rarenes gross subsiding humours which obstruct the vessels of the Spleen and viscera of nutrition causing turgid inflations schirrous tumors and pains in those parts concocts crude ichorous bloud depurates and renovates it from scorbutick feculency and maligne putrefaction makes it more fit for nutrition and amicable to the body Take it in a glass of White-wine or Rhenish which is best or in good strong beer not new or beer with the juce of Orange which is better or whey if the body be hot In the morning fasting and at 4 of the clock in the after noon The Dose for men and women is 24 drops for the age 14 and under so many drops as they are years old Shake the Bottle then use it The Hydropic Pills are appointed for the cure of Dropsies and watery tumors of the body whether universal or in particular parts They are purgative and attract serous and watery humors from any part of the body and Evacuates by seige They excite the kidneys to attraction and expulsion which before was fluggish imbecile or impedited in their office whereby superfluous serosity or water is accumulated and retained in the body they are very aperitive resolutive and diuretical opening obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Ureters dissolving any coagulate matter and sending forth the Morbific cause by Urine The Dose for Men and Women is 5 Pills or but 4 if a tender body for 14 years old 3 Pills Take them in the morning fasting and drink little until noon then eat your dinner Thus doe 2 or 3 days in a week intermitting a day between Those dayes you purge not drink a draught of Wormwood wine and eat some white bisket every morning and at 4 of the Clock after noon keep a spare diet let your meat be rosted rather then boyled If your stomack be weak use the digestive Tincture Be moderate in drinking You may profitably use white-wine mingled with the decoction of sasaffras two parts to one of wine The Hydropic powder hath the same vertues and operation with the Hydropic Pills But because some are averse to Pills that with facility can take a powder they may chuse either Take it in a draught of posset drink or white wine warmed Observing the preceding directions The full Dose is one Dram for the age 14 2 scruples or half a Dram. And so proportionably to younger For the Guts THe Retentive Powder mittigates and stayes all Fluxes and violent excretions of the Guts whether lienterial Dysenterial or diarrhaea's not by an astringent or binding quality of the Medicine that were injurious to nature and not subsidiary to retaine what nature desires to expel but by attracting and collecting the peccant humor that stimulates to expulsion and evacuating it whereby one stoole that the Medicine procures carryes with it more of the offending cause then six other from the oft times vain irritations and struglings of nature without assistance By the anodynous vertue it allayes charms the turgid aestuation of stimulating humors by degrees evacuates and sends them forth with less disturbance and danger whether they be sharp bilious or acide serous humors a saline irritating Phleme a stinking corrupt Colliquation or acrid and adust Melancholy having also and astringent vertue to bind after wards and to roborate the retentve faculty the offending cause being removed this is the safest way to stop the flux of what nature soever and in any person women with child in child bed children or infants and to prevent the danger that may ensue If the Flux be bloody drink Whey wherein gads of Steel hath been quenched for your common drink The Dose of the Powder for man or Woman is a dram or more to a Child of twelve years old half a dram And so proportionably to younger Take it in Posset-drink in the Morning in bed and sleep after it if you can Do likewise the next day if the occasion continue The Apperitive powder is emollient absterfive and opening appointed for costive hot and dry bodys whereby excrements being too long retained are hardned and baked sumes return up to the stomack troubling Concoction and offensive to the brain it corrects the dry distemper of the Guts or intemperate heat of the Liver frequent causes of costiveness humects and softens dry hard excrements and procures two or three stools It is a necessary preparative to Physick making the body fâ—uid and fit for purgation opening obstructions of the bowels mesentery Liver Spleen Pancreas and Matrix whereby any Medicine hath access to those parts with more facility and speed and less abatement of its strength before it comes to operate upon the part intended the ductures and passages being laid open by its Apperitive vertue The Dose for Man or Woman is a Dram for fourteen years two scruples Take it in a wine-glass full of the Liquor of stewed Prunes in the morning fasting half an hour after drink a good draught of posset drink or Whey if you have a hot costive body an hour after this you may eat your breakfast spoon meat is best Thus you may do four or five mornings together For the Reins and Bladder THe Nephritic Extract by a specific virtue resists the lapidifactory disposition of the Reins and petrifactive succus prevents coagulation and petrifaction By the abstersive tartareous property clenseth the Reins and Bladder from mucilaginous slimy matter sand or gravel that lodgeth in the urinary passages By the unctuous quality mollifies relaxeth lubrifies and dilates the uriters and urinary ductures for the more facile and speedy exclusion of the stone-gravel or any viscous coagulated matter which may cause a suppression of urine or strangury By the balsamic vertue Heals excoriations of the urinary passages caused by attrition of the stone and gravel or acrimony of Urine and mitigates the pain Very subtile and resolutive powerful to
dissolve the stone diuretical purging by urine The Dose for Man or Woman is half a Dram which is about the quantity of a hasel nut Take it thus five or six mornings together fasting roll it in fine powdered Sugar or Hony and so swallow it then drink a good draught of White-wine after or mixed with Ale And you may follow your business The Nephritic Powder clenseth the Reins and bladder from sand and gravel opens the Uriters and Urinary passages provokes Urine cooles the reins and prevents the stone Take it in a glasse of White-wine fasting half a douzen mornings together But let the Powder be put into the wine over night and stand close covered The Dose is one Dram. The Dysuretic Powder corrects the sharpness of Urine having an Hostile quality and antipathy to acidityes which causeth the Uriters to twitch and vellicate with a painful Convulsive motion and contraction in the small of the back and hips to the Region of the bladder and bottom of the Belly helps incontinency of Urine or debility of holding water strengthning the Sphincter Muscle of the bladder and taking away the acrimony of the Urine which provokes the expulsive faculty it checks the over strong attraction of the reines causing immoderate making water thereby wasting the body exhausting the natural humidity and impoverishing the Masse of bloud coagulates a saline and tartareous resolution in the body which comming into the ductures of the Vrine stimulates and irritates to expulsion by its acrimony Cooles the reins mitigates the ardor and scalding heat of Vrine The Dose for Man or Woman is a Dram for the age 14. two scruples 8 years old half a Dram. Take it in the morning an hour before you rise in posset drink you may eat or drink when you are up and go abroad Vse it a fortnight or three weeks together Observe your diet and let your drink be steeled For the Genital Parts THE Restaurative essence asists digestion in the Spermatic vessels strengthens the generative faculty effectual against sterility or barrennesse in the feminine sex and deficiency in the masculine if the causes be superfluous moisture crudity and infaecundity of the seed debility of the Genital parts frigidity or imbecillity of nature and not organical impediments and defects It strengthens a weak back preserves the balsom of nature and natural heat restores consumptive weak persons strengthens old age and the declinings of nature refresheth the animal and vital spirits by its aromatical fragrancy roborates the internal parts asists the digestions prevents crudityes and the superfluity of crude humors Taketh away putrefaction in bodyes that have a ranke or strong favour by reason of putrid humors breathing forth through the pores of the body it will depurate clense and make such bodyes more sweet and wholesome and more acceptable to their bed fellows Shake the bottle before you use it Drop it into fine powdered sugar and take it upon a knifes point then drink a glasse of Tent Muskadel or Sack after it The Dose is 24 drops for Men or Women You may take it night and morning in bed In the use of strengthning Medicines Take this observation That if the body be soul let gentle purgation precede first clense then strengthen that 's a regular course for this purpose let women take the Hysterical Pills Men may use the Stomack or Cachectic Pills As the condition of their body most requires The Hysterical Pills have an abstersive and purgative faculty to clense and open obstructions of the veins leading to the Matrix whereby the terms may have their due times and colour according to the course of nature they dissipate flatulent vapours and evacuate noxious humors collected in the womb which having aquired maligne qualities by residence there occasions various symptomes and disturbance in several parts by consent from the Matrix as Hypochondriac Melancholy palpitation of the heart shortness of breath and compression about the stomack pains of the head deliriums Convulsive motions sadness palenesse and unwonted Complection they prevent fits of the Mother disperse the vapours and corrects the malignant cause They cure the Green Sicknesse brings the termes into their right order restores the Complexion and purgeth the lower Region of the body The full Dose is 6 pills for fifteen years old 5 pills or but four if she be a tender body and easie to operate Take them early in the Morning you may lye an houre after when you are up drink a good draught of warm Posset and walk in the House Eat at noon Thus do two or three days together intermit so many days then take twice or thrice more And you will finde the benefit The Expulsive Powder Is appointed for a difficult and perilous Child birth being effectual to expedite the delivery of Women in a slow hard labour it procures travelling pains when nature is unable and weak giveth strength to the woman and Child and hastens the Birth expells a dead child and brings away the after burden You may give it twice in twelve hours for the foresaid occasions not oftner The Dose is one paper of powder Take it in a small spoonful of Cinnamon-Water Penyroyal-Water or Mace Ale or these mixed at the discretion of the Midwife The Restringent Powder helps the debility and weakness of the Spermatic Vessels procured by immoderate coition or other accidents stayes a Gonorhaea or Running of the Reins so called corrects the heat and acrimony of the seed that stimulates to expulsion and allays the pain asswageth any sharp humor in the privities of either Sex heals an exulration or excoriation there takes away itching or molesting heat prevents the danger by immoderate copulation cools allayes and strengthens those parts Use it thus Take a quart of Smiths water let it stand six hours to settle then pour off a pinte cleer in it put the Powder shake it well in a Bottle then with a Syringe inject it into the privy part morning and night and you will receive much help and ease But if the Gonorrhaea be virulent proceeding from the Pox then it is requisite also that you take the Medicines proper for that disease as the italic and neapolitan Pills to purifie and clense your body from that malignity and virulency where with the humors are tainted and vitiated And to prevent future danger For the joynts THe Arthritick Pills are peculiarly appointed for the Gout whether hereditary or acquired by diaetetic errors or differing in the part affected as the feet knees hips hands or other Joynts yet owning the same approximate cause and admit the same cure They attract the serous acrid humor which pricks and lancinates the Periostium and nervous parts about the Joynt and retract the confluence of humors caused by pain resorting to the part affected They are very profitable and Auxiliary against a rheumatismus commonly called the running Gout which is an erratic pricking pain wandring from part to part caused by a flatulent acrimonious humor afflicting not
being the cheifest part of my Study and most delightful of late years And having approved in practice what in reason they promised at the veiw enticing to experiments I may with confidence commend to your use being a witness to all that belongs to them made choice of their Druggs saw their due preparation and Composition and not only a spectator but an agent sometimes where the strictest care and nicest curiosity is required being the best recreation I know or can desire For my part I desire no other weapons to oppose any Herculean disease where the capacity of the subject will endure the contest and be conformable to the commands of such a discipline I shall require to be observed The Patient must bear a part or no good to be expected there must be a conspiration consent and agreement between the Physician the Patient and the Medicine against the disease or the design will fail The Physician cannot oure without a good Medicine the Medicine cannot cure except prudently appointed by the Physitian in fit Doses at due times with the requisite circumstances and yet neither shall prevaile if the patient be disobedient intemperate and careless For if by good medicine you prevaile against your disease get ground one day and lose it the next or soon after by an unfit improper ordering your self the labour is in vain as by too often experience we finde it in practise with peevish unruly imprudent patients who thinke the taking of the physick is sufficient let themselves live at the old rate and customes which first occasioned the disease You must not therefore expect these medicines to take that effect as is promised declared in the enumeration of their vertues appropriate use if you by an irrigular course and daily common practise in eating drinking sleeping passions of minde rest and motion or other customes whatever improper and unfit for the condition of your body and distemper act with a Counter motion and repugnancy to the efficacy and vertue of the Medicine and also cherish indulge and strengthen the disease Therefore remember that a duty is required incumbent upon you and impute not your miscarriages improper unseasonable insufficient use of the means to the deficiency of the Medicine and that you make a difference between a chronic inveterate radicated disease to which you are propense by hereditary nature constitution or constant bad customes and a slight accidental infirmity The former requiring a more serious prosecution continuance and repetition of Medicines if you have been many moneths perhaps years contracting a disease you may well allow some days for a parting And that these Medicines may not receive a prejudice in their reputation undeservedly and for want of knowledge in the proper choice and use of them especially in such cases and persons where a subordinate use of Medicines is required for the eradicating of a contumacious and chronic disease such I say who desire a methodical and exact course in the use of these Medicines more at large and peculiar for their complicated diseases and condition of body then what is exprest and provided for in this book I shall upon their application to me whether by letter if far distant or otherwise give them my advice and directions in the choice and use of any Medicine or Medicines as their particular case requires according to the true account and relation I shall receive of their infirmities at my dwelling next to the Blew-Bore on Ludgate-hill London OF Life Health and Sickness AFter the praevious disposition of formation and effiguration of seminal matter in the wombe by the innate spirits thereof the chief actors in vegetation having prepared fabricated and made ready for animation the Soul then exerts her power animates and gives life and as supreme moderator and governor disposeth and orders all for future conservation and perfection of operation The seminal Spirits which before were chief and principal in preparation and fabrication of this mansion are now after the souls assuming the Government but instrumental and subordinate immediately acting by vertue and power from the soul received neither can the one act without the other the soul cannot act the body in its operations but mediately by the intervening Spirits there is so great a distance between the spirituality of a soul and the corporiety of bodies but the Spirits being of the most refined subtile volatized material substance are the fittest Intermedium of conjunction conveyance and commerce between the Soul and body nor can the spirits act their parts in any Vital operation but by the energy command and power derived from the soul These spirits have their residence in every part of the body as principal assistants and excitors to the performance of the office and duty belonging to the several parts and are the approximate immediate agents of the soul and they are preserved maintained and supplied by the additional spirits extracted from the bodyly aliment daily received There is also a ferment or transmutative quality peculiar to each part or office for concoction resulting from the particular nature property and temper of each part being the author of alteration and transmutation by vertue whereof the food received is digested volatized and receiving various impressions according to the disposition of the ferment of each part by which it passeth until it be fit for assimilation into the substance of the body In the vigour and rectitude of these ferments and the aforesaid spirits consists the sanity and integrity of each member in its office but the diminution alienation and depravation of either vitiates and imbecillitates the parts indisposeth and incapacitates them to their office and duties from whence various morbifick effects are produced answerable to their several causes and the variety of organical parts in their principal or ministerial functions These Spirits and ferments are preserved and maintained in their natural purity and vigour by a temperate sweet Air wholsom and regular dyet seasonable sleeping and waking moderate and constant exercise due evacuations and retentions tranquillity and ease of minde But these irregular unnatural disproportionate or unsutable in matter manner times or order destroyes the regular oeconomy and peaceable Government of the body raiseth discords introduceth and begets morbifick causes abbreviates and shortens life Of which particularly hereafter This I have premised as a ground work for the superstructure intended and for your preparation and clearer apprehension of what shall be delivered in the following discourse knowing upon what bases it is founded The life of man consists in the Conjunction of soul and body mutually embracing each other with the bands of Love and desire of continued Union until the incapacity and unfitness of the body by its ruinous and decayed condition or other impediments and deficiency enforceth the soul to desertion and departure Spiritual and Corporeal substance are now knit and interwoven one with another by an extraordinary curious artifice and contrivance so that you can not say
have a stool else the Faeces are hardned the body heated the stomack molested the appetite not so good the head heavy dull and sometimes pained some grosser matter which should go away by seige is brought by the Urinarie passage occasioning obstructions all which are very injurious and destructive to health Seasonable and moderate Venus alleviates nature and helps concoction Immoderate exhausts the strength by effusion of spirits exsiccates and dries the body hurts the brain and nerves causeth tremblings dulls the sight debilitates all the faculties hastens old age and shortens life Cibovel potu repletis superfluè evacuatis five exercitatis coitus interdicitur Tempus optimum est mane post dormias Hyeme vere frequentius permittitur aestate parcissimè Juvines sanguinei pituitosi liberalius parcius Melancholici parcissimè biliosi Senes emaciati Mares plus quam faeminas laedit qui erecti solent Hygiastic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the several constitutions of bodies with their diagnostic signes THE Sanguine is moderately hot and moist hath a lively pulse vigorous actions of colour fresh or rosie for habite of body soft fleshy or moderately fat of a pleasant mind and good disposition except casualties and infirmities alter to the contrary The Sanguine constitution being the best and most temperate ought to be preserved in that state from degeneration and intemperate declensions which is performed by a due observance of diet Air Exercise and Rest Sleep and Watching voiding and retaining of excrements and passions of the mind for any of these irregular unsutable or unnatural of continuance will alter and change the best tempered body into some other constitution of intemperature answerable to their causes as the intemperate Air of a hot climate or season not regarded violent exercise nightwatchings c. Introduceth a depraved alteration and degeneration of the blood For the quality of your diet let it be temperate for temperate bodies must use temperate meats and distempered bodies their contraries therefore keep within this latitude generally and for the most part from meats temperate to meats hot cold dry or moist in the first degree inclusive those will sute well with your temperament Such are Mutton Cow-beife or Heifer Pork Veale Lamb Rabbit Capon Hen Pullet Turky Phesant Partridge Carrots Turnips Skirrits Sparagus For quantity times and order in eating and drinking for Aire Exercise and Sleep consonant and most agreeable to this constitution are to be sought in the general Hygiastick Rules before mentioned which are most proper and applicable to this complexion as being the common standard to measure others by and how far others vary from this temperament by so much are they to be accounted intemperate and do therefore require some particular Rules differing from the general because intemperate constitutions and temperate are not be governed by the same strictness of law but must have some allowance and exceptions which shall be observed in the particular constitutions following Phlegmatick Constitution THe Phlegmatick person is more cool and moist not so lively quick sharp and acute as the sanguine for habit of body corpulent fat or fleshy the Veines small and hid a slow pulse prone to sleep and ease by cold things prejudiced by hot things benefitted incident to cold and Phlegmatick distempers which are to be understood if customs casualties or infirmities induce not the contrary Meats agreeable and convenient for this temperament are such as be temperate and such as be hot in the first and second degree not over moist but potencially drying if heat be wanting as young Beef powdered Mutton Venison Hare Turkey Hen Capon Pidgeon Turtle Black-birds Feldifars small Birds sowced Puffins Artichoaks Parsnips Potatoes pickled Oysters Anchovies Also Bacon Haberdine old Ling salt Cod pickled Herrings or dryed pickled scallops and such like savory seasoned meats this temperament will admit of if the stomack be strong enough to digest them And for the more security take a glass of Sack after Refuse Lambe Kid fresh Pork Pig Goose Duck and water Fowl being over moist and clogging a Phlegmatick stomack But if your appetite much desires any of these let them be down roasted also Eeles Lampreys fresh Herrings Makarel Lobster fresh Salmon Barbel fresh Sturgeon Tench are injurious and most fresh fish yet less prejudicial if you drink wine with them Let your dyet be warm meats oftener roast then boyled Butter Oyle and Honey is very wholsome Mustard Salt and Spices are good for your use especially with meats of slow digestion and that abound with much moisture Refuse Milk and milk meats Curds new Cheese Butter milk and Whey Olives Capers Broom-buds Sampire are good sauce also Garlick Onions Leeks in broths seasonings or sawces for a rellish but not raw Refrain cold hearbs and sallads as Lettice Purslan Violet leaves except Sorrel which although cold yet a dryer and sharpner of the appetite but use Mint Sage Rosmary Time Marjerome Parsley Pennyroyal and such hot hearbs Abstain from raw fruits Apples Pears Plumms Cucumbers Mellons Pumpions c. But you may eat Walnuts Filbirds Almonds blanched Chestnuts fiftick nuts Dates Figs Raisins Drink strong bear more frequently then small and sometimes Sack Not French wine if you be Rheumatick Indulge not your self in lying long in bed or afternoon sleeps too much rest and ease they dull the spirits increase flegm and superfluous moisture Frequent exercise and moderate abstinence in meat and drink are great preservatives of your health Chuse a warm air and dry soil remote from Waters the best place for your abode Hot Baths are profitable seasonable and moderate Venus a friend the former cherisheth the spirits opens obstructions and dryes up superfluous moisture the latter sufcitates and raiseth the spirits alleviates and helps Concoction If the smoaking of Tobacco be good for any the Phlegmatick may best challenge the use of it Cholerick Constitution THe Cholerick person is hot and dry eager and precipitate in action froward hasty and angry lean of body and slender the Veines bigg a hard pulse and quick of colour pale swarthy or yellowish the hair crisp or curled propense to waking and short sleeps subject to Tertain Fevers Ad venerem proclivior cito satiatus Use a cool and moistning diet most frequently boyled meats rather then rost or baked but fryed or broiled meats never Eat brothes often made with cooling hearbs Rice-milk Cock-broth or Barly broths with Rasins Currants and Prunes For flesh chuse young tender and jucy temperate or cooling as young Beef Veal Motton Lamb Kid Pork Conies Green-geese Turky Capon Chickens Observe fish days as good dyet and then you may eate fresh Salmon Sturgeon Lobster fresh Herrings Crabs Prauns fresh God Conger Thornback Soles Plaise Whiring Smelt Perwincle Oisters Pike Trout Tench and all fresh fish Eeles not excepted which are very unwholsome to others Milk and milk meats are pleasant and good as Custard White-pots new Cheese fresh Cheese and Cream For your sauces use Verjuce Vinegar
your body be weak and brought low with the disease for nature will strengthen and be much incouraged dayly by the assistance of these Medicines and Methodical course prevailing upon the disease And you will be more cheerful and strong then at first when you began In the interim during this course and method no day is prohibited but you may use the powder of Saturne if there be any Ulcer pustuls Scabs or tumors caused by this disease also the Restringent powder if there be a Gonorrhaea and if your mouth be fore or the gums swelled and tender by reason of the malignant humor spending it self that way by spitting as sometimes it doth then use to gargle your mouth often with hot broth or warm Beer sweetned with hony and you need not fear any prejudice Haematic Powder THe Haematic Powder is appointed as a necessary help to rest ain an immoderate Flux of blood that is hurtful and weakning to nature whether it be the overflowing of womens monthly purgations vomiting or spiting of blood Haepatic Fluxes by Stool by Vrine or at the nose It corrects the acrimony tenuity or serosity and heat of blood which stimulates to expulsion and causeth transudation apertion or erosion of a vein It incrassates and thickens the blood And makes it indisposed for fluxion constringeth and bindes the Vessels and assists the dibility of the retentive faculty Take it in a draught of Verjuice Posset cold morning and night in bed The full Dose is one Dram for twelve years old half a dram Febrific Elixir THe Febrific Elixir is very auxiliary to mitigate and allay the burning heat of Fevers it checks the fermenting ebullition and aestuation of the blood resists febrific putrefaction and disposeth to transpiration of hot putrid vapours which causeth restlesness and unquiet watchings asswageth immoderate thirst irrigates and refresheth the parched spirits excites decayed appetite by restoring the stomachical ferment and is grateful to the stomack The full Dose is twenty drops for young people so many drops as they are years old Shake the bottle when you use it You may take it in a glass of White-wine or mingled with fresh smalbeer equal parts a good draught twice in the day or night You may put Syrup of Oranges or Lemmons if you will to it for the Pallate sake you need not fear the heat of the wine to prejudice you Sarcotic Pills THE Sarcotic Pills are appointed for Vicers internal and external they exsiccate clense and heal by their Balsamick vertue excoriations and ulcers within the body where there is a possibility of cure taking away all corrosive and sharp fretting humors which continues the ulceration they are very advantagious towards the cure of external ulcers and sores in any part of the body subtracting the antecedent cause evacuating serous acrid humors which feeds the sore and prohibites healing they are proper and beneficial for wounded persons to expedite their cures they are good for Scabbed persons Leprous or have any breakings out upon the skin The Dose for Man or Woman is 5 or 6 Pills for 14 years old 4 Pills Take them 3 or 4 mornings in a week you may lie an hour or 2 after them in bed 3 hours after taking them you may drinke posset drink or whey Which also is best for your common drink in the forementioned cases and to have it steeled with gads of steel quenched therein Sudorific Pills THE Sudorific Pills are aperitive resolutive and discussive opens the pores and procures breathing sweats removes Cold Aches and stiffness in the Muscles and joints transpires and breaths out putrid vapours and superfluity of crudy watery humors and rheumatic moisture depurates and clenseth the bloud and opens obructions very profitable in contusions or bruises dissipates and scatters the Flux of humors resorting to the dolorous part affected and prevents coagulation of the bloud resolves it if already fixed and congealed they prevent tumors and internal apostumation and disperseth a colleciton of humors A general Medicine and may fitly be used in all cases that require sweating with facility and benefit You may take them 2 or 3 mornings together fasting in bed covered warm a quarter of an hour after drink a draught of hot posset-drink then sweat will break forth lye in it for 2 hours then take off clothes by degrees and cool with discretion The full Dose is 4 Pills for 14 years old 3 Pills Sympathetic Powder THE Sympathetic Powder is of known vertue in cureing green wounds as also the Tooth-ach Take a few drops of bloud from the wound in a peice of linnen lay upon the bloud a little of this powder then tye it up close and put it in your bosome and keep it warm day and night for if cold or wet happen to it the wounded person will be much disturbed and pained If there be wounds in several parts each wound must have a several cloth used in like manner wash the wound with white-wine or the parties urine then binde up the wound with convenient linnen cloth that cold come not to it and in such manner as the brims of the wound may draw towards each other the third day open the wound and wash away the quittour or corruption then bind it up again with fresh clothes and you will have a speedy cure if the wound be in such a part of the body as is cureable In like manner you may do to a beast wounded with successe For the Tooth-ach thus cause your gum to bleed where the pain is with a pen-knife or needle then stain a cloth with it the breadth of a groat without rheum then lay a little powder to it tie it up and keep it as aforesaid and it seldom fails to give present ease and cure Issue Cere-cloth THE Issue Cerecloth is very commodious for those who have Issues in any part of the body it attracts and draws to the place for vent extravafated superfluous erratic humors causeth a dry Issue to run and brings away filthy matter prevents inflammation and keeps an Issue coole very necessary in journyes and voyages one peice will serve a month in wearing then lay on a fresh one wipe it and turn the other side to the place every dressing and lay a paper upon it A Catalogue of the Diseases and Symptomes for which the Medicines are peculiarly appointed PAlsy page 80. 81. Lethargy page 80. 81. Convulsions page 80. 81. Falling-Sickness page 80. 81. Vertigoe page 80. 81. Head-ach page 80. 81. Tremors page 80. 81. Rheums page 80. 81. 114. Bad hearing page 80. 81. Bad sight page 80 81. Coughs page 82. 83. Consumption page 82. 83. 100. Spitting blood page 82. 83. Short breath page 82 83. Ill savoured breath page 82 83 88. Palpitation of the heart page 85. Fainting page 85. Oppression at heart and stomack page 85. Melancholy vapours page 85. Bad Stomack page 87 88. Surfets page 85 87. Pain at stomack page 87. 88. Wind page 85 Worms page 87 88. Cholick page 87. Costiveness page 96. Fluxes page 87 95. Jaundice page 90. Gripings page 87. Spleen page 90 91 92. Scurvy page 90 91 92. Obstructed Liver page 90. Dropsies page 93 94. Obstructed Mesentery page 90 Stone and gravel page 98 97. Infirmities of the Urine page 98. 99. Gonorrhaea page 103. Green-Sickness page 101. Them immoderate page 111 Fits of the Mother page 101. Barrenness page 100. Masculine Imbecillity page 100. Hard-labour page 102. Weak backs page 100. Fevers page 85. 112. Plague page 85. Small-Pox page 85. Measels page 58. French-Pox page 170. 180. 109. Poysons page 58. Gout page 104. Râ—nkness of body page 100. Inflamations page 107. Tumors page 107. Vlcers page 107. 113. Bruises page 114. Aches page 114. Stiffness page 114 Scabs page 107 103. Itch page 107. 103. Tettes page 108. Ring-worms page 107. Swarthyness page 150. 160. Sun-burn page 150. 160. Morphew page 150. 160. Spots page 105. 160. Chilblains page 107. Initia Morborum quamvis levia serpunt Venienti occurrite FINIS The Medicines are appointed at these Rates that none may give more or expect them for less  s. d CApital Pills 2 6 Cephalic Essence 5 0 Pectoral Electuary 2 0 Balsamic Extract 7 0 Cordial Tincture 2 6 Bezoardic Confection 3 0 Stomack Pills 2 6 Digestive Elixir 5 0 Cachectic Pills 3 4 Scorbute Tincture 5 0 Hydropic Pills 4 0 Hydropic Powder 3 4 Aperitive Powder 2 6 Retentive Powder 2 6 Nephritic Extract 6 0 Nephritic Powder 4 0 Dysuretic Powder 4 0 Restaurative Essence 10 0 Hysterical Pills 3 4 Expulsive Powder 5 0 Restringent powder 3 0 Arthritic Pills 4 0 Cosmetic Water 6 0 Powder of Saturn 2 0 Italick Pills 3 4 Neapolitan Pills 4 0 Haematic Powder 3 0 Febrific Elixir 5 0 Sarcotic Pills 4 0 Sudorific Pills 2 6 Sympathetic Powder 3 0 Issue Cerecloth 1 6 WHat Medicines you intend to keep for emergent occasions set them in dry places from moisture and they will remain in full vertue the Electuaries a year and half the Pills and powders two years the Elixirs Tinctures Extracts and Essences many years being close stopt FINIS